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Articles from July 2015

The phrase the ‘grass isn’t always greener’ should never deter you from making a bold decision on your career. If for example, you’re looking to leave a position but you’re not quite brave enough, you may be tempted to put your tail between your legs and return the following day as usual, because ‘the grass isn’t always greener’.

So many people have turned down some quite amazing opportunities because they weren’t brave enough to leave their employers. If you’re not entirely happy, then you should be looking elsewhere and you have to be brave enough to take it if the right opportunity comes. If you let it slip, you could find yourself stuck in a dead end job regretting it each and every day.

If you leave and don’t like the next job, at least you tried it and there’s a good chance you will have learned something new along the way. You only learn things about yourself when you challenge yourself and step out of your comfort zone.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how many skills or qualifications you have, if you know someone who’s high up in a business, there’s a chance you can get a good job with them. Contacts are obviously crucial when you’re developing your career, and you never know when or if you’re going to need them, but there are many businesses out there that have employed people they know on merit.

It’s upsetting for some, as they may see another individual (without the qualifications or skills they have) exceeding them in a career, and you can feel like you’re hard done by. That said, it’s even more of a reason why you should aim to develop as many contacts in your industry as possible, because you may one day be the one who’s taking huge strides forwards thanks to knowing a certain someone.

In most jobs, it’s not ‘who you know’, and there’s almost always going to be certain skills required, but you can be favoured for knowing somebody in a business, so keep developing those contacts.